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18138 Victorian as well as the informationThe first book to deal with the history of failed marriages in England and how people dealt with them, from the Restoration to the 1980's. Until 1857, England was the only Protestant nation to have no legal mechanism for divorce for adultery, desertion, or cruelty, and husbands, wives, and lawyers went to great lengths to bend or break the law and get around these constraints. Stone examined court cases and legal records from 1660 to 1860 that were